Food: Borneo 1945 Museum Kopitiam

When I was in Sabah last year, I stayed Borneo Backpackers lounge. What I like to wake up to every morning was the Kopitiam below. Post war design theme was used to design this unique shop, you can learn a little history things that had happen here in Sabah.


WWII History Timeline above the kitchen
Kopi Botol (Coffee in Bottle) retro packaging using recycle beer bottles
Most people came to have coffee, half boiled eggs and their original charcoal-toast bread with kaya & butter. This was captured when we settle down. You can see there is Chinese chess on the table for their customers to enjoy other than the food & coffee.


there are many old posting around the coffee shop
Here is the retro Menu on a piece of flat wood:

Did I mention their bread are grilled-toasted and the bread is a round loaf ? That is to complete the 40's atmosphere.

Special set

Emelyn near the counter

Yes, this place do serve one of the best coffee in Borneo town. Recommended to drop by when you are there. In the evening I saw them serving BBQ, maybe it was a special occasion.

Food: Izzi Restaurant

Izzi restaurant is a fine dining place where Italian and Asian cuisine can be found. I have been here 3 times and the food still taste good. Izzi run many promotions from time to time, check it out here.

Parking might be a hassle if you asked me, but if you are just around the Jalan Bukit Bintang area it is just a walking distance if you know where Pizza Hut is located.


Chicken Steak with Pasta & Lasagne Bolognese

Marinara Pizza

Deserts were not serve chill enough for my taste

65% Discount on all food
Well, the atmosphere there is quite nice, 2nd Floor has a bigger space to sit with friends and family. The service is not bad at all, they serve Beer despite their origin from Indonesia. Our last visit was rather discomfort as the air condition was out, no matter.. fans were available and it was a rainy season.

Updates: Promotions now run up to 75%

Food: Homemade Spicy Ham Spaghetti with Fries

Why I like cooking? Well you will never know when u need your cooking skills, it is always good to improve my cooking skill. I was from a family of food makers, it is a shame if I really don’t know how to make a few dishes.

Last week I was experimenting in the kitchen after hiking session. I was thinking to make Pasta sauce on mashed potatoes but ended I brought the wrong potatoes. The potatoes then were sliced, mixed with Vinegar & Olive oil and to the oven for 20mins at 200 Degree Celsius.

Campbell Spicy Pasta sauce was cooked with slices of onion, garlic, tomatoes, ham and pork meat. Once cooked, toasted on the pan with spaghetti. There you had it, a 30mins meal.

Spicy Ham Spaghetti with Fries

My recipe:
Tomatoes (Chunk Slice)
Onion (Slice)
Garlic (Slice)
Ham (Chunk Slice)
Pork (Chunk Slice)

Homemade Fries

My recipe:
Potatoes (Chunk Slice)
Vinegar
Olive Oil

I can’t rate my food here, but it taste just nice.

Food: Chestnut Moose Cake

Something Senior-Tze made on his retired free time. It taste not bad at all, even better when left overnight when the favors reveals itself. Best serve when chill.

Ingredients:
Chestnut & the rest is disclosed

Recipe:
Filed with wordings unknown to human

Senior-Tze writing is worst compare to doctors. He is THE Devil to my Die.t program.

Venue: China Town, Kuala Lumpur

I used to study near towards China Town during my colleague days, I went to this spot in Kuala Lumpur again to do some government paper-works. If you know how to access the alleys of this town, u can reach to anyway within China Town in minutes. I must highlight the process of the Government Dept. I went to was fast, there was not much people and I just spend 10mins there. Thou the people working there don’t serve us RAKYAT with a smile.

Gate of China Town, Kuala Lumpur better known as Petaling Street

I pay my parking tickets for 1 hour, therefore I have time to walk thru China Town and get to eat some of these famous food. Today China Town has been changed as to compare to 8 years ago, many seller there are no longer locals. You can find many sellers from various Asia countries trying to make a living here. If you are coming as a visitor, do beware of your personal belongings. I wouldn’t say it is perfectly safe here thou there are Petrol Police, many things might happen. Beware of the monks and beggars on this street, they are not what they seems to be. I came across the monks change into a handsome bold ass smoking at the alleys, Senior-tze saw a crawling beggar walking to grab a taxi after working hours!

At the centre of a junction, I really can’t decide between what to drinks?


Famous Longan Drink


Uncle Bean Soy Bean Drink

I picked soya bean to clear my rumbling stomach, and where did I had lunch? I am not sure if many of u know this place, the Chinese used to called it Chung Wah alley. If you can find this place, which happens to be the Market of China Town.

Here they sell from fishs, meats to pets! Pets? Those are live pets such as cats, birds and other small animals. After passing this market, you will come to a place where they serve foods. Food such as Yong Tau Fu, Soup Noodles, Pork Noodles, Asam Laksa, Curry Laksa, economy rice and many more.

My lunch:

Chee Cheong Fun Rm1.50
Soya Bean Cold (with dark sugar) Rm1.20
I was on diet Priceless

Today, I can say the China Town is more comfortable to walk as DBKL build a huge roof on the street and also the place is much cleaner as to compare 8 years ago.

Food: HomeMade Sandwich

I don’t have a name for this sandwich but I could name it Island Ham Seaweed Finger sandwich? I like making my meals, it sometimes help relaxes me. It sounds so GAY!? Mainly, I get to enjoy the food as how I like it being made. I don’t like mayonnaise, but every time I tell the waiter… they tend to forgot all about it. I should have some papers from doctor saying I am allergic to mayo.

My ingredients were:
Tomatoes
Thousand Island Sauce
Slice Cheese
Ham
Sea Weed
Sun Flower Seed Bread loaf

Oh! by the way, Malaysia TV will air a short commercial on Kraft Cheese. Mama-tze helped on that commercial, she was the Food Advisor for the sandwiches aired. She made 1 for breakfast one day, it was great. I should blog it next time she made it again.

What sandwich do you like to make?

Seoul Garden BBQ

Last month I visited Seoul Garden BBq with my colleague's for dinner buffet RM38++ (without tax) per head. This is my 1st visit during the Buka-Puasa Promotions, they are located at the old 1-Utama area towards One World Hotel.

The concept of their food is called the Korean Hot-Plate Steamboat. As you can see, the middle is a small steamboat pot which you can choose from herbal soups to spicy kimchi soups.


There are varieties of meats from Lamb, Chicken, Beef, Prawn, Fish, Crab to Squids available to choose for BBQ and already marinated with their own Korean recipes. There are also Yong-Tau-Foo choices of food for you to dip into the hot pot. There are certain ranges of veges too.


Being Korean, they serve Kimchis and Korean-sauce to compensate their food. My experience overall towards the food deserve a good 3/5 as I don't find the vege's serve are very fresh. You can find deserts such as Ais Kacang and Wall's Ice Creams. There are some fruit juices and hot tea for refreshment too.

The customer service is quite good, waiters do give their tender loving care to their dinners. It's a great place if you want to enjoy a long conversation and food at the same time.

Address:
1-Utama, Lot F235, First Floor Promenade (near One World Hotel)

Food: Hao Hiong Klang Bak Kut Teh

This restaurant is located on the junction of the famous Cheras Taman Connaught Pasar Malam every Wednesday night. I went there for supper with my fellow friends and found the place is not very tidy and clean as compare to normal restaurants. The table I sat on had holes on it, but like any Bak Kut Teh Restaurant they serve all sorts of pork-segment in it. The soup paste is sweet and not much of herbal taste to it. This restaurant serve normal veges and some other dishes such as Vinegar Pork, Herbal Chicken, Curry Chicken and more but depends on the demand on day-to-day basis. I went there around 10pm and they were only veges and bak kut teh.



My rating of this restaurant, 2.5/5 as the place is not very clean. The waiter forgot my order, dining tools were not available when food is every served. Average customer service but the food is OK.

Food: Shabu Shabu Restaurant

RM26++ per person (including tax)? At this current Malaysian Economy state I sure said YES and went ahead with 2 lovely ladies. This restaurant make you pay first before you eat, the concept of this restaurant is like a Sushi bar. Everyone get their own individual pot of soup, you can make the soup to be anything depending on the ingredients you load into it.


The customer service is with a SMILE and they do serve dinners first with ready-cooked food such as fried dumplings, snacks and starters while you wait for your food to be cooked. The only thin slices of meat available is pork. Beef, Chicken, Lamb and fishes are cut in small portions.

I made my soup taste like the Chinese ABC Soup with loads of tomatoes, potatoes and onions.

This restaurant does not serve Ice Creams, the cold beverages they serve is ice-cold Slurpee-Like drinks.

Atmosphere in this restaurant is like any other noisy-busy-buffet restaurant. I felt its a great place to have dinner after a busy day at work or a place of gathering. Their clean environment does make a good impression of a Shabu-Shabu dining more comfortable.

Too bad I could not take more pictures as my camera went flat on batteries. I will visit again to this restaurant, but if you need more info here is a link from Food:Malaysian Most Wanted

Personal overall experience of dinning 4/5.

Address:
No. 19, Jalan Puteri 1/6, Bandar Puteri, 47100 Puchong, Selangor. (Same row as Citibank)

Cafe No. 8

Me and Lisa went out to have a drink last weekends. I told her specifically no alcohol outing. We went exploring some new shops in Bukit Jalil, we found a nice quiet Cafe & Pub in this new area. The atmosphere is nice, they serve illy's coffee and some local food. It is a 2-Floor pub, it is best place to be if you want to have a long conversation with friends.

We ordered a Jug of Heineken & Club Sandwich. Price for the sandwich was RM8.88 after the Cafe's No. 8 Slogan. Too bad the lights was not good, have to blame the alcohol for shaky hands too. But it was sure a nice place to hangout for people whom leave about the area.

Cheers Lisa, hope we enjoy this place again when I get my salary.

Nihon Kai Restaurant

Nihon Kai is a family restaurant located along side of Old Klang Road. The place is hard to find.. good things are HARD to find.

Atmosphere is remarkable good, they have Japaneses newspaper, mangas, magazine and books for you to enjoy. This restaurant is located in such a place where there is a Japanese population nearby. The service is great, I have got a VIP privilege in this restaurant. How do you have it? I will let u know later.


Counter area & Sake Counter



Forgot the name of this dish, but it is crispy vegetarian & salmon dish


Salt and pepper Salmon set, can be shared among couples


I name this dish Chicken & Egg & Rice.

You can see the pictures of the foods on their menu, so no worries on ordering the wrong dish


No. 4-2, Jalan Telok Gadong, Off Jalan Klang Lama Batu 3 1/2, 58100 KL.

Oh! my VIP access is actually my retired-parents, they are regulars. I need to bring them along to enjoy FREE ice creams, new dishes & specialties. Dishes can be requested but with a price tag attached.

I eat for free if I bring along Anthony (future-potential-director) but I need to pay for his plane ticket from Aussie.

Just need to highlight: I did not recommend this restaurant because I know these people, it is because I know the GOOD FOOD they served!

Mid-Autumn Festival

Wishing you all a warm Mid-Autumn Fest. Every year, this festival makes me want to puke seeing varies moon cakes available. I dont like them since I was a child as the skin texture is thin and there will be loads of red beans in it. I once did a charity and make 50 red bean moon cakes to raise funds for the Chinese Society in my school, yes it was halal. Thou traditionally, there is a moon cake which has nuts and pork in them.

Moon cake has evolved to another era where you can now find SAMBAL as an ingredient. There are even more bizarre.

After 2000, many people begin to realize traditional moon cakes are not healthy. Once MaMa-tze came out with Agar-Agar Moon Cakes. Haagen Daz too came out with their ice-cream moon cakes. Quick search, icylifememories blog about it. Believe me, many join the band wagon... let me recall seeing brand such as Sushi King, Starbucks, Baker's Cottage and I remembered there was once S.H.E. too sold it in a very nice packaging in Malaysia/Singapore only. My pal send a whole collection to his SHE-finactic friend in Taiwan.

Let me introduce my readers to my brother-chief-tze, he is a low rank chief in a well known Chinese Restaurant in KL. He is brushing his skills from well known chief in the Chinese Restaurant business, and of-coz his great teacher/student of all time Senior-tze. He made some great moon cakes over the past 2 years, their restaurant was rated on of the best moon cake makers this year. Rated without any awards thou.

Here are some of the homemade moon cakes that my family make, hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoy eating them.

This is Snow Skin Moon Cakes Durian Lotus, then the green will be Green Tea. Receipe of the paste was from Senior-Tze, Ingredients will be by Brother-Chief-Tze and Production+Packaging was done by Mama-Tze.

Once bitten on the paste of the snow skin moon cake, there was a rather bouncy texture which taste of sweet & cold candy. Then when the durian spread towards the tongue as of I had a durians instead. Yes, brother-chief-tze uses real durians and cooked with lotus.

MaMa-tze other special Agar-Agar Moon Cakes
Yellow : Durian Lotus / Green : Green Tea Lotus / Red : Red Bean / Purple : unknown

The Durian has strong Aroma and Taste, not meant for the weak

Which role was I on the whole process? Taste/Test Rat. Only limited moon cakes was produced and sold only by demand orders.

Somehow or rather I will still enjoy moon cakes with traditional hot chinese tea, with family and friends. Children still light up the lanterns and candles on the porch. This year Mid-Autumn festival will be on Sunday, hope you all have a wonderful time. If you had no plans yet, there is still time to make one.

Travel-Blog : Kuala Kubu Bahru

This is a small town, will be noticed if heading towards Fraser Hill. Located in between the Tanjung Malim and Batang Kali town. I manage to drop by for a lunch.


This Chinese stall located near towards POS office in town offer very nice and healthy Chinese Teo Chew's food.



You can easily get nice organic fruits here, but at your own risk



If you manage to locate this restaurant, have a tea time

They serve nice Kaya, RM2.20 for 1 plastic jar

Brunch Buffet : Agefuku Restaurant

Last weekend on Sunday, my ex-colleagues and I was hungry for some sushi. We decided to try the Agefuku Sunday Buffet which is RM40 per adults. Pictures speak louder than words...





















Personally this restaurant serve a reasonable buffet. During the M'sia economy issue, they provide their best in freshness and also service. Staffs are all smil-e and helpful. Even ice creams are handmade for you with tender loving care. Well, at least I paid for what I stuffed-myself and the service received.

Then we spotted Wall-E